Compiled Experience

Exporting a GraphQL Schema

I’ve been playing around with GraphQL at work quite a bit lately and starting to put together some thoughts on how it can fit into your application (and more importantly where it doesn’t).

One of the things we found we needed everyonce in a while was an export of the schema in the .graphql format. Most of the time we were definining our schema in a “code first* way using GraphQL.NET, so we typically didn’t have this file to work from.

However a number of tools / frameworks work well if they can import one of these schemas, a good example is schema stiching using Hot Chocolate.

So how do we export a schema from an already existing GraphQL.NET service?

Thankfully support comes in terms of the SchemaPrinter class. This takes an instance of your Schema that you’ve created by any of the mechanisms the framework supports.